education 2a key terms

Question 1

ethnicity

Answer 1

a social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion, language or the like. This is different to race which is related to biology.

Question 2

material factors

Answer 2

differences in material conditions, such as income, housing conditions and employment that lie behind attainment differences in education.

Question 3

attainment 8

Answer 3

8 subjects which make up attainment 8 include english and maths. Each pupils attainment 8 score is calculated by adding up the points for their 8 subjects, with english and maths counted twice.

Question 4

language

Answer 4

a symbolic means of communicating through gestures, sounds, or written words.

Question 5

racism

Answer 5

the belief that groups of humans posses different behavioural traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another.

Question 6

Racial prejudice

Answer 6

Involves a set of assumptions about a racial or ethnic group which people are reluctant to change even when they receive information which undermines these assumptions.

Question 7

educational triage

Answer 7

categorising pupils into those who will achieve anyway, hopeless cases, and those who need the most help.